Archeology of Violence

Author	Cho Se-Hui
ISBN	0824831012

The dark side of South Korea's economic miracle emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-hui's enormously popular and critically acclaimed work. First published in 1978, it speaks to the painful social costs of reckless industrialization, even as it tellingly portrays the spiritual malaise of the newly rich...

Author

Flann O'Brien

A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel...

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	1480537373

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation.

As edited by Dan Wakefield,...

Author	Roddy Doyle
ISBN	0749391685

I was going to attempt to write this review in the working class Dublin slang that Roddy Doyle’s colourful characters use, but, ya know, Jaysis, I’d come o’ looking like a fuckin’ eejit.

I’m one of the few people on the planet who’s never seen the Alan Parker movie, and when I was in...

Author	Gerald Murnane
ISBN	1930974280

'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.'--Teju Cole

'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.'--Paris Review

'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.'--Shirley Hazzard

'Deeply mysterious yet grounded in familiar, everyday...

Author

Martin Walser

Helmut Halm, Lehrer an einem renommierten Stuttgarter Gymnasium, und seine Frau Sabine verbringen, wie seit Jahren schon, ihre Ferien am Bodensee. Ein Paar in mittleren Jahren, ein vielleicht wohltuend ereignisloses Leben. Man liest, wandert, schottet sich ab. Diese Ferienidylle wird jäh unterbrochen,...